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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Bath and North East Somerset Council. Also known as B&NES, BathNES and BANES.Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Bath and North East Somerset website
71,450 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 12 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 14 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
1 Balustrade , Bath, BA1 6QA
Received 20 Jan 199892 High Street, Weston, Bath, BA1 4DQ
Received 20 Jan 1998Motor Services (Bath) Ltd, Locksbrook Road, Bath, BA1 3EU
Received 12 Jan 19989 Broad Street, Bath, BA1 5LJ
Received 19 Jan 19989 Broad Street, Bath, BA1 5LJ
Received 19 Jan 199837 Mendip Gardens, Bath, BA2 2UT
Received 23 Jan 1998Donaldson Run Now Known As Chestnut Villa, Weston Lane, Bath, BA1 4AA
Received 23 Jan 1998Pennard Court, Watery Lane, Bath, BA2 1RH
Received 22 Jan 1998180 Bailbrook Lane, Bath, BA1 7AA
Received 22 Jan 199813 Chelsea Road, Newbridge, Bath, BA1 3DU
Received 23 Jan 199866 Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4DL
Received 26 Jan 19984 Claremont Terrace, Bath, BA1 6EH
Received 21 Jan 19983 Homelea Park East , Bath, BA1 3HP
Received 22 Jan 19981 Kennington Road, Bath, BA1 3EA
Received 21 Jan 19984 Old King Street, Bath, BA1 2JW
Received 23 Jan 19984 Alfred Street, Bath, BA1 2QU
Received 28 Jan 1998Cooperative Retail Services, 3A Burlington Place, Bath, BA1 6RS
Received 28 Jan 199816 Kingsway , Bath, BA2 2NH
Received 28 Jan 1998166 Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2AT
Received 26 Jan 1998University Of Bath, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7PB
Received 28 Jan 1998Primrose Hill House, 2 Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, BA1 2US
Received Not published6 Combe Grove, Bath, BA1 3NU
Received 28 Jan 199813 Grosvenor Place, Bath, BA1 6AX
Received 26 Jan 19984 York Place, London Road, Walcot, Bath, BA1 6AE
Received 27 Jan 1998Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Bath and North East Somerset Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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